Hi Roger,
Thanks for your swift reply. Unfortunately this is using 6.7.7 (on Mac,
building a standalone to run on Windows). Did you notice a regresssion?
TIA,
Ben
On 30/06/2016 14:50, Roger Eller wrote:
UNC was broken in 6.6.4 to 6.7.1 (I reported the bug when my apps began to
fail). UNC was repaired in 6.7.5 and higher.
~Roger
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Ben Rubinstein <benr...@cogapp.com> wrote:
I spoke too soon.
With the volume mounted, accessing it by drive letter works (so I assume
that this isn't a permissions problem); but using the UNC fails.
If I use "answer folder" I get the path with drive letter, e.g.
Z:/Docs/Invoices
setting the defaultFolder to this path has the expected effect, using
"there is a folder..." on this path returns true, etc.
But if I use the "UNC" version of path:
//server/volume/Docs/Invoices
then setting the defaultFolder returns "can't open directory", using
"there is a folder..." return false.
Reversing the slashes makes no difference.
SysError returns either 2 or 3 - seemingly randomly. Apparently
2 = ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND
3 = ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND
This is on Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise.
Previous answers suggested that some people have succeeded in accessing
directories using UNC paths. Can you share how you've done this?
Many thanks,
Ben
On 29/06/2016 17:07, Ben Rubinstein wrote:
It wasn't a mistyped path.... but it was my making a mistake! In my lack
of
Windows knowledge, I thought that the volume was mounted - but actually
that
was a server that was 'accessible', but with none of it's volume's
mounted.
Thanks to everyone for their assistance.
Ben
On 22/06/2016 17:02, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Mark Talluto wrote:
The first thing to check is permission access to that folder.
Have your program do a sample write to that location and get
the results.
That's too smart. For me that's the second thing I do, but when I do in
addition to checking the result I also include a call to the sysError
function
so I can learn what the OS might be telling me.
The first thing I do is assume I mistyped the path, so I'll run
something like
this in the Message Box to double-check it:
answer file "Select your file:"; put it
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